Memoir from Antproof Case: a novel
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From the bestselling author of A Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War comes a work of astounding prose. Helprin combines adventure, satire, flights of transcendence, and high comedy with memories of a place that no longer exists to tell the story of a man who, in the face of the world's cruelty, refuses to stop loving.
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9780151000975
9780547542034
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full_title | memoir from antproof case |
author | helprin mark |
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An old American who lives in Brazil is writing his memoirs. An English teacher at the naval academy, he is married to a woman young enough to be his daughter and has a little son whom he loves. He sits in a mountain garden in NiterĂ³i, overlooking the ocean. As he reminisces and writes, placing the pages carefully in his antproof case, we learn that he was a World War II ace who was shot down twice, an investment banker who met with popes and presidents, and a man who was never not in love. He was the thief of the century, a murderer, and a protector of the innocent. And all his life he waged a valiant, losing, one-man battle against the world's most insidious enslaver: coffee. Mark Helprin combines adventure, satire, flights of transcendence, and high comedy in this "memoir" of a man whose life reads like the song of the twentieth century. |
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primary_isbn | 9780151000975 |
publishDate | 1995 |
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subject_facet | Brazil -- Fiction, New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction |
title_display | Memoir from Antproof Case : a novel |
title_full | Memoir From Antproof Case, Memoir from Antproof Case : a novel / Mark Helprin |
title_short | Memoir from Antproof Case : |
title_sub | a novel |
topic_facet | Fiction, Historical Fiction |